In 1930 she was fitted with new diesel engines which gave her a speed of 21 knots and was rebuilt to a tonnage of 24,469 tons. In Dec.1936 she commenced her last Trieste - New York voyage for Cosulich Line and in 1937 went to the newly formed Italia Line. In March 1937 she commenced running from Trieste to New York and in March 1940 commenced her last sailing Trieste - Naples - New York - Trieste. She was requisitioned by the Italian government in 1941 to carry troops to North Africa and in 1942-3 was used on three special missions to repatriate women and children, Genoa - East Africa via S.Africa. In Oct.1943 she became a US Troopship and on 29/3/1946 was chartered to American Export Line to run between New York - Naples - Alexandria. She commenced her last voyage on this service on 4/10/1946 after 6 round voyages

This is my favourite amateur film in the Internet Archive. The photographer has a true interest in places, sights and buildings visited, and most of the footage has high quality. Some young Americans - "Bill and I" - travel in Europe, probably in 1936 (the airship Hindenburg is seen passing Cologne heading towards Berlin). They leave New York in march and sail home in the autumn. They go by boat and train and come to many places: Lisbon, Gibraltar, Algiers, Palermo, Naples, Capri, Monaco, Geneva, Wengen, Lucerne, Cologne, Brussels, Vienna, Budapest, Salzburg, Munich and Berlin.

I don't know who these people are, or if they did something more than sightseeing during this half year. You get glimpses of personal life, but in the end you find anonymity. Their tourist perspective seems to change during the trip. First they see "picturesque" and "strange" things. Algiers is a "city of contrasts". They come to "The modern French section", and then see "some strange sights in the old Arabic quarters". Some women in hijabs run away from the offensive tourist camera, while some boys laugh - at the Americans. In Vienna, Budapest and Berlin they see more of the ordinary life between the great buildings, and they see the Nazis. There are great pictures of Nazis marching in Berlin and of the people watching. Near the end, now in colour, we see a brown house with bright red Nazi flags waving in the wind. Bill stands in front of this house. Strange enough, his colours are almost the same as the Nazi colours - a camel-hair ulster, a red scarf and a brown hat - but he seems to feel uncomfortable standing there. - The thrill of these amateur films is that you see scenes like these and only can guess what they mean.

Here is a rather detailed list of the content:

Part 1, bw
00:00 TITLE Vagabonds Abroad. A Pictorial narrative of my European travels.
TITLE Bill and I sail for Europe abroad the Vulcania, March 21st!
00:09 Waving people. The ship sails.
00:30 TITLE The Azores! First land seen in five days!
00:40 The ship sails into a port.
01:05 TITLE Picturesque and charming Lisbon, our first European port.
01:13 Streets in Lisbon. A tram. Bill appears. Flaneurs.
01:35 Women with baskets on the head pass by.
01:43 19th century monument.
01:51 TITLE Anchored at Gibraltar, venders show us their wares.
01:56 Views of the cliff of Gibraltar. Venders appear in rowing boats.
02:47 TITLE Algiers, city of contrasts! The modern French section.
02:55 Panaroma. La Dèpéche Algèrienne. Streets. A park.
03:28 TITLE We saw some strange sights in the old Arabic quarters.
03:36 A square. A boy in fez waves to the camera. A narrow and steep alley.
03:54 Three women in white hijabs hurry by, while some boys laugh.
04:15 Back on the Vulcania again.
04:37 TITLE Shores of Sicily rise in the distance. We dock at Palermo.
04:46 Rocky shores. The harbour of Palermo
05:25 TITLE Vesuvius - the bay of Naples - Our first lodgings ashore. April 3rd
05:33 View of Vesuvius from the ship.
05:42 A street in Naples. Bill and another young man comes along.
05:48 The youth hostel, Wandererheim Fatty
06:09 TITLE Via funicular we gained height for this panoramic view of Naples.
06:16 Views of Naples
06:29 A boy with a dog walks down some stairs.
06:33 TITLE We cross the bay to the enchanted isle of Capri
06:40 Views of Vesuvius from the ship
06:48 Capri, panoramas.
07:05 Albergo Grotta Azurra Ristorante.
07:24 TITLE A small boat takes to the Blue Grotto
07:31 People in rowing boats, the Vulcania in the background. Female tourists laughing. Inside the Grotta Azurra (Blue Grotto)
07:51 More views of Capri (?)
08:13 Sign: Principaute de Monaco
08:17 Hotel in Nice (?)
08:33 TITLE We spent a delightful week in Nice, famous French resort
08:43 Views of the seashore with a pier, hotels, fashionable flaneurs, cafés
09:34 The Alps: our frinds climb a mountain, admire snowy alps and a village far down in a valley.
11:15 A hotel with good view of alps
11:39 TITLE May 11th. We arrive in Geneva, Switzerland by bus.
11:46 The bus. A street. Bill studies a memorial tablet honouring Woodrow Wilson as the founder of the League of Nations.
12:05 Views from a train.
12:23 Unterlaken-Ost. Streets. Alps
13:11 TITLE Dreams of Swiss Alpine scenery come true at Wengen and the Jungfrau!
13:20 Views of the Jungfrau and a valley. Bill throws a snowball.
14.32 Unterlaken-Ost again
14.45 TITLE Swiss lake scenery at Lucerne. Boat trip to Fluelen
14:53 Streets in Lucerne. Lake. Alps. Panoramas
16:53 On the train again. Chateau-Thierry. Trip up the Rhine
17:08 A war monument (WW1)
17:54 TITLE Our Rhine trip comes to a climactic end at Cologne
18:03 Cologne with the dome
18:25 TITLE The "Hindenburg" passes over Cologne heading towards Berlin
18:33 Hindenburg passes and disappears behind rooftops
18:41 TITLE We found a bit of old world atmosphere in Brussels
18:50 Granc Place and other sights in Brussels.

Part 2, bw, from 16:12 colour (no titles)
00:00 Neon signs by night, probably in Vienna
00:11 Sign "Spanische Reitschule". Streets and architecture of Vienna
03:14 Street sign "Opernring". Wiener Stadtoper
03:36 A cup of coffee, probably in a Wiener café
04:05 Schloss Schoenbrunn
04:46 Neon sign "Budapest"
04:52 View over a plain and a village from a train
05:06 Budapest sights (beautiful pictures from foggy and clear days in this city): bridges, the Danube, the castle, streets, a poster pillar by the river, monuments, sculptures, churches, a synagogue, the Parliament
09:52 On the train again. The train stops by the Austrian (?) border and military or police inspect the trains.
10:05 Sign at railway station: Salzburg. Streets and architecture, views of the castle and a snowy Salzburg.
11:24 A snowy park with skiing and sledging people
12:36 Munich
13:43 Sign: München Hbf (Munich railway station)
13:47 Berlin. Nazis marching (by Brandenburger Tor?)
14:28 Sights in Berlin
14:52 Street signs in black (gothic) letters: Under den Linden, Schinkelplatz
15:04 Potsdam: the castle, Sans Souci, the windmill and monuments in the park
16:12 Brandenburger Tor. Now a colour reel (bleak colour)
16:30 A monument with waving Nazi flags
16:39 A house with waving Nazi flags and Bill in front of it
17:01 A railway station
17:18 A ship in a harbour (Hamburg?)
17:38 The ship sails. The sea seen from the stem.

A pretty nice looking film that details a couples journey to Europe. From the amazing departure in New York on ship, to visiting Gibraltar, Nice, Switzerland, and Germany. Some VERY fascinating shots of early Nazi Germany is shown, from parades and especially at the end of part 2 when the film goes into Color. A very bunch of cool shots.